McBride is an incredible storyteller - completely unpredictable and original. You’ll learn in the author’s note that McBride created these last stories after a disturbing visit to the zoo with his two nephews - what a creative and compelling way to turn something so appalling to them into something so magical. Here we better understand the Higher Order - the wild animals, here confined to a life in captivity, as related by the king of the jungle himself. And my favorite collection of related stories just has to be "Mr. “The Christmas Dance" is incredibly authentic and moving - it will make your heart swell. Abe Lincoln makes a couple of appearances first as a young orphaned slave’s imagined father, then later as we witness the president in a quite intimate, vulnerable, and deeply human circumstance.
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